Debra Goldman's Consumer Republic

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We have an obesity crisis in this country. And I’m not even referring to the toll that fat is taking on the physical health of an ever-increasing number of Americans. I’m talking about the strain that fat puts on our mental health. We keep struggling to decide whether fat people are architects of their own fate or victims of social prejudice.

On one hand, the statistic that 61 percent of Americans are overweight or obese has become one of the figures most cited by journalists—right after the one that reminds us that one out of two marriages ends in divorce.

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